Tommy Byrne, a racer, a raconteur, thief.

The greatest racing car driver you've never seen.

For a fleeting moment in the early 80s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest driver,

the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali all rolled into one. In a little over four years Byrne went from driving a Mini Cooper in stockcar racing to the big-time in Formula One. Eddie Jordan the former team-owner, who worked with both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, will tell you: ‘Forget Schuey and Senna. Tommy Byrne was the best of them all.’ His rise was meteoric and his fall spectacular.